In March 1964, Alaska began to shake. There was a great earthquake. It was the biggest earthquake the country ever had.

Shops and houses fell down. One street dropped 30 feet. One island rose about 11 metres into the air parts of the sea bottom became dry land. People felt the earthquake hundreds of kilometers away.

Each year there are many earthquakes. Most of them are small. They happen in different parts of the world. We are not sure what makes them. But if you are near, you can see the earth move. You may see a big crack(裂缝) in the ground. Sometimes the land drops on one side of the crack. It goes up on the other side of the crack. There is a new hill. The old world has a new shape.

(　 )36 The strongest earthquake in Alaska happened in __.

　　 A. April 1967　 B. June 1864　 C. March 1964 D. May 1867

(　 )37. The word “earthquake” in the story means __.

　　 A. a sudden dropping of the island.　　　

B. the making of a new hill

　　 C. a strong shaking or moving of the ground.

　　 D. the rising and falling of the sea bottom.

(　 )38. The story wants to tell us __.

　　 A. earthquake change the land B. houses fall down and streets are broken

C. Alaska shakes a lot　　　　 D. how the strongest earthquake happened

(　 )39.From the story we know earthquakes happen _________.

　　 A. in shops and other buildings　 B. only in big cities

　　 C. in small countries　　　　　 D. in different parts of the world

(　 )40. From this story we can see __.

A.earthquakes often do a lot of harm B. people are trying to stop earthquakes

C. the bottom of the sea is nearly dry D. most people are afraid of earthquakes

　　　　　　　　　　　　

 In March, _________ trees were planted.

        A. millions                B. millions of            C. two millions

   

In every little girl's toy box. there might be a Barbie Doll. Barbie is 50 years old this, year. It was designed(设计)in 1959 by an American businesswoman named Ruth Handler. She and her husband Elliott started the toy company Mattel. She named the new doll after their daughter Barbara. The first Barbie Doll appeared at the toy fair（交易会）New York on March 9th, 1959. This date is used as Barbie's birthday.
Mattel sold three hundred thousand Barbie Dolls in the first year at a price of three dollars. Today, a fifty-year-old Barbie in good condition might cost more than twenty-seven thousand dollars. Mattel says 90% of the girls in the United States aged from three to ten own at least one Barbie Doll. And girls aged three to six own an average（平均）of about twelve.
When Mattel created Barbie Dolls half a century ago, they never thought this doll would become a legend. Now Barbie Dolls are famous all over the world. They are sold in one hundred and fifty countries, and every second three Barbie Dolls are sold around the world.
【小题1】Who designed the first Barbie Doll in 1959?

A．Mattel.

B．Elliott.

C．Barbara.

D．Ruth Handler.

【小题2】A Barbie D011 cost _______dollars in the first year after it appeared.

A．3

B．50

C．90

D．27,000

【小题3】What does the underlined word “legend” mean in the passage?

A．传播

B．传奇

C．传承

D．传达

【小题4】The writer doesn't tell us _______.

A．Barbie Dolls are very popular with girls	B．Barbie Dolls sell well around the world
C．what the first Barbie Doll was based on	D．the doll Barbie was named after Barbara

【小题5】What's the best title of the passage? ______.

A．Barbie's birthday	B．Barbie Dolls
C．A lovely girl named Barbie	D．Why are Barbies popular

March 20th is World Water Day every year. According to a report from the United Nations, more than half of the world's major rivers have serious water loss and are polluted.
The Yellow River, the world's fifth longest river, watered some of the oldest farms on earth. But now it has a serious problem.    【小题1】   In most of the past 35 years, it didn't reach the sea.
The Nile in Egypt, running 6, 650 km, is the longest river in the world. 【小题2】Now it is down to 2 billion m' or so.  Australia's Murray River reaches the sea only every other year.  One fifth of America's Rio Grande has no water, either.
____【小题3】   
Mostly it's damming (筑坝) and global warming that make rivers dry.
____【小题4】   Now about 45, 000 of them lie across the world's rivers. They hold back around 15% of the world's fresh water from running to the sea.
Global warming is making things worse. Warmer weather takes water away.  The glacier (冰川) are becoming smaller.   【小题5】   Global warming has had certain effects on water sources (源头). Droughts (干旱) happening around the world make people pay more attention to this fact.

A．Dams hold water to irrigate (灌溉) fields and make power. B．The source of the Yellow River is drying up because of it. C．It used to carry 32 billion m' of water a year. D．How does it happen? E. Factories pour waste water into rivers directly. F. Its source on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is drying up.

 

In every little girl’s toy box. there might be a Barbie Doll. Barbie is 50 years old this, year. It was designed(设计)in 1959 by an American businesswoman named Ruth Handler. She and her husband Elliott started the toy company Mattel. She named the new doll after their daughter Barbara. The first Barbie Doll appeared at the toy fair（交易会）New York on March 9th, 1959. This date is used as Barbie’s birthday.
Mattel sold three hundred thousand Barbie Dolls in the first year at a price of three dollars. Today, a fifty-year-old Barbie in good condition might cost more than twenty-seven thousand dollars. Mattel says 90% of the girls in the United States aged from three to ten own at least one Barbie Doll. And girls aged three to six own an average（平均）of about twelve.
When Mattel created Barbie Dolls half a century ago, they never thought this doll would become a legend. Now Barbie Dolls are famous all over the world. They are sold in one hundred and fifty countries, and every second three Barbie Dolls are sold around the world.
【小题1】Who designed the first Barbie Doll in 1959?

A．Mattel.

B．Elliott.

C．Barbara.

D．Ruth Handler.

【小题2】A Barbie D011 cost _______dollars in the first year after it appeared.

A．3

B．50

C．90

D．27,000

【小题3】What does the underlined word “legend” mean in the passage?

A．传播

B．传奇

C．传承

D．传达

【小题4】The writer doesn’t tell us _______.

A．Barbie Dolls are very popular with girls	B．Barbie Dolls sell well around the world
C．what the first Barbie Doll was based on	D．the doll Barbie was named after Barbara

【小题5】What’s the best title of the passage? ______.

A．Barbie’s birthday	B．Barbie Dolls
C．A lovely girl named Barbie	D．Why are Barbies popular